The AFL (Australian Football League) had to
change the finals system that it used before 2000
(the McIntyre final-8 system) because I pointed out that it was
mathematically unfair and uncompetitive. The problem is
that they changed to a system which is even worse than
before. This lead me to write another paper titled
"New AFL finals system is unfair", published in the
Australian Mathematical Society Gazette. Eventually, when
the AFL decides to adopt a fair system, they will have to use one
of my systems. I have made about 10 media releases on this
topic, and to quote form my interview on Today Tonight "I will keep at it until they
get it right".
Here are some of them: